Definitions

from The Century Dictionary.

  • Stiff; stout; violent.

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  • noun bodybuilding, slang Anabolic steroids.
  • noun sports, slang Illegal and/or banned performance-enhancing steroids used by athletes and others.
  • noun vulgar, slang Hemorrhoids.

Etymologies

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A contraction of steroid.

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Examples

  • Im for certain roid will uncover in the exam so we dont know what forgive have been we guys articulate about.

    Floyd Mayweather Sr. doesn't want his son to face Pacquiao | Now ... admin 2009

  • Im for certain roid will uncover in the exam so we dont know what forgive have been we guys articulate about.

    Archive 2009-11-01 admin 2009

  • Further, it would just increase the amount of steroids that cheaters would take to even more dangerously high levels, with bizarre illnesses and girlfriends thrown down staircases in 'roid rages increasing concomitantly.

    What if all athletes took equal amounts of steroids? Steve Sailer 2004

  • Further, it would just increase the amount of steroids that cheaters would take to even more dangerously high levels, with bizarre illnesses and girlfriends thrown down staircases in 'roid rages increasing concomitantly.

    Archive 2004-12-26 Steve Sailer 2004

  • Also, did what's called roid rage fuel the deadly Blackwater shootings in Baghdad?

    CNN Transcript Nov 27, 2007 2007

  • But the WWE released a statement saying there is no evidence suggesting that, and took the media to task for speculating that the deaths could be the result of so-called roid rage.

    CNN Transcript Jun 27, 2007 2007

  • PHILLIPS: Was Benoit suffering from so-called roid rage when he killed his wife, his son, and himself?

    CNN Transcript Jul 17, 2007 2007

  • I'm on steroids, and one of the side effects is called roid rage.

    CNN Transcript Dec 8, 2004 2004

  • Prosecutors wanted to introduce the voicemails at the slugger's perjury trial starting next week to show that Bonds was experiencing so-called 'roid rage when he left the messages demanding to know the whereabouts of Kimberly Bell.

    The Globe and Mail - Home RSS feed 2011

  • It was speculated that Chris had murdered his family and committed suicide in a steroid or "roid" rage.

    Bob Barr: I Was Wrong About The War On Drugs -- It's A Failure 2008

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